Text-Replace in docx and save the changed file with python-docx

Question

I\'m trying to use the python-docx module to replace a word in a file and save the new file with the caveat that the new file must have exactly the same formatting as the ol

Answer 1

I've forked a repo of python-docx here, which preserves all of the preexisting data in a docx file, including formatting. Hopefully this is what you're looking for.

Answer 2

In addition to @ramil, you have to escape some characters before placing them as string values into the XML, so this worked for me:

def escape(escapee):
  escapee = escapee.replace("&", "&")
  escapee = escapee.replace("<", "&lt;")
  escapee = escapee.replace(">", "&gt;")
  escapee = escapee.replace("\"", "&quot;")
  escapee = escapee.replace("'", "&apos;")
return escapee

Answer 3

from docx import Document
file_path = 'C:/tmp.docx'
document = Document(file_path)

def docx_replace(doc_obj, data: dict):
    """example: data=dict(order_id=123), result: {order_id} -> 123"""
    for paragraph in doc_obj.paragraphs:
        for key, val in data.items():
            key_name = '{{{}}}'.format(key)
            if key_name in paragraph.text:
                paragraph.text = paragraph.text.replace(key_name, str(val))
    for table in doc_obj.tables:
        for row in table.rows:
            for cell in row.cells:
                docx_replace(cell, data)

docx_replace(document, dict(order_id=123, year=2018, payer_fio='payer_fio', payer_fio1='payer_fio1'))
document.save(file_path)

Answer 4

The problem with the methods above is that they lose the existing formatting. Please see my answer which performs the replace and retains formatting.

There is also python-docx-template which allows jinja2 style templating within a docx template. Here's a link to the documentation

Answer 5

this worked for me:

def docx_replace(old_file,new_file,rep):
    zin = zipfile.ZipFile (old_file, 'r')
    zout = zipfile.ZipFile (new_file, 'w')
    for item in zin.infolist():
        buffer = zin.read(item.filename)
        if (item.filename == 'word/document.xml'):
            res = buffer.decode("utf-8")
            for r in rep:
                res = res.replace(r,rep[r])
            buffer = res.encode("utf-8")
        zout.writestr(item, buffer)
    zout.close()
    zin.close()

Answer 6

As it seems to be, Docx for Python is not meant to store a full Docx with images, headers, ... , but only contains the inner content of the document. So there's no simple way to do this.

Howewer, here is how you could do it:

First, have a look at the docx tag wiki:

It explains how the docx file can be unzipped: Here's how a typical file looks like:

+--docProps
|  +  app.xml
|  \  core.xml
+  res.log
+--word //this folder contains most of the files that control the content of the document
|  +  document.xml //Is the actual content of the document
|  +  endnotes.xml
|  +  fontTable.xml
|  +  footer1.xml //Containst the elements in the footer of the document
|  +  footnotes.xml
|  +--media //This folder contains all images embedded in the word
|  |  \  image1.jpeg
|  +  settings.xml
|  +  styles.xml
|  +  stylesWithEffects.xml
|  +--theme
|  |  \  theme1.xml
|  +  webSettings.xml
|  \--_rels
|     \  document.xml.rels //this document tells word where the images are situated
+  [Content_Types].xml
\--_rels
   \  .rels

Docx only gets one part of the document, in the method opendocx

def opendocx(file):
    '''Open a docx file, return a document XML tree'''
    mydoc = zipfile.ZipFile(file)
    xmlcontent = mydoc.read('word/document.xml')
    document = etree.fromstring(xmlcontent)
    return document

It only gets the document.xml file.

What I recommend you to do is:

1. get the content of the document with **opendocx*
2. Replace the document.xml with the advReplace method
3. Open the docx as a zip, and replace the document.xml content's by the new xml content.
4. Close and output the zipped file (renaming it to output.docx)

If you have node.js installed, be informed that I have worked on DocxGenJS which is templating engine for docx documents, the library is in active development and will be released soon as a node module.